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Multiple sagas have been unfolding during the NBA offseason. One has been the Denver Nuggets potentially tightening payroll, even though their team has to find ways to remain near the top of the brutal Western Conference. Another has been the restricted free agency of Peyton Watson. And, of course, we have the Cleveland Cavaliers trying…

The Denver Nuggets are trading restricted free-agent forward Peyton Watson to the Cleveland Cavaliers in a multi-team deal, multiple sources told The Athletic on Wednesday. The sources spoke under condition of anonymity because the deal is not yet official. A league source, speaking under condition of anonymity to discuss a deal that had not yet…

A segment of Dallas Mavericks fans are expressing frustration over a change to the team’s partial season-ticket plan for the 2026-27 season. In two different 10-game plans the Mavericks are offering for the upcoming season, one of the regular-season games has been replaced by a preseason game. The Mavericks’ Oct. 14 preseason game against the…

If Mark Walter’s sale of the Los Angeles Lakers was the big surprise of this summer, what followed early this week was perhaps a little more predictable. The fight within the Buss family — specifically between current Lakers governor Jeanie Buss and her five siblings, who voted to sell the family’s shares in the team…

The Los Angeles Lakers have undergone an unprecedented series of ownership changes over the past year. The latest — Mark Walter’s agreement to sell his controlling interest in the team to former Disney CEO Bob Iger and venture capitalist Joshua Kushner less than a year after acquiring it from the Buss family — could lead…

Five of the six Buss family siblings said they intend to move forward with selling their portion of the Los Angeles Lakers, a day after a lawyer for their sister, Jeanie, said doing so would be “a breach of trust, breach of fiduciary duty” and would put them “in contempt of court.” “Johnny, Jimmy, Janie,…

The Bounce Newsletter  | This is The Athletic’s daily NBA newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Bounce directly in your inbox. Jeanie Buss is trying to stop her family from selling their remaining 17.8 percent stake in the Los Angeles Lakers. It’s just the latest twist and turn in this hectic $12.5 billion sale of the historic…

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Jeanie Buss might not be done as the Los Angeles Lakers’ team governor. Not long after it was reported that the Buss family intended to sell its portion of the franchise — a move that would lead to Jeanie’s ouster as team governor — her lawyers deemed the reported vote void. In a letter sent…

The Buss family, which has owned and operated the Los Angeles Lakers since March 29, 1979, intends to sell its remaining shares in the team, tagging into the $12.5 billion valuation Mark Walter received last week in a deal with Bob Iger and Josh Kushner, according to multiple sources who spoke on the condition of…